Medical School

During the past month the early morning temperatures in Hanover have been in the 40s but the splendid weather hasn't been the only stimulus to the Medical School. Our 137 students began their fall semester study on August 28, and there are a number of noteworthy features regarding the first, second and third-year classes. The latter comprises 18 M.D. candidates; the second year class has both M.D. candidates and transfer students; and the newest class, with 67 students, is the largest class since 1895. There are both men and women in all three classes.

The Medical School is now poised for its first M.D. Commencement" in well oyer half a century, and it's not an exaggeration to say we're excited about it. We hope to pass this feeling to our alumni through new and extensive communication.

Dean Chapman's history of the Medical School, originally appearing as a special issue of our Quarterly, is being published as a book by the University Press of New England. At this time we do not have an exact publishing date but we are certain that it will be this fall.

Dr. Chapman's writing has by no means been confined to updating the history. He has also authored a comprehensive and illustrated report to the College Trustees on the six years of his administration. This too will be available to Medical School alumni.

A third publication will be an Alumni Newsletter. We plan to have the first issue in your hands this season.

Another form of communication, television, enabled many people to view the Olympic games better than on-the-site spectators. Because of the great number of American contenders, however, many viewers were not aware that one of our second-year students, Andy Roberts, was a member of the United States Crew Team.

We're happy to say that we have an accumulation of personal items to report and will print some of them now, retaining a few of the letters for subsequent columns:

The new address of Milton M. Lieberthal M'33 is 25 Cartwright Street, Bridgeport, Conn., 06604. John R. SchwarzellM'63, in association with Drs. Henry Schwarzell and Gilman Kirk, is now practicing general surgery at 283 East State Street, Columbus, Ohio. He writes, "I presently live at 2424 West Lane Avenue, Columbus, and have three children, John, Mike and Andy, ages 5, 3 and 10 months."

Originally scheduled to serve in Japan via the Army, Roger L. Christian M'63 received a change in orders and now lives at 4130 Briar Glen, San Antonio, Texas 78218.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation has announced that Kenneth E. DeHaven M'63, a . fellow-in-training, is to tour West Coast Orthopedic Centers as one of five orthopedic residents from North America selected by the American Orthopaedic Association as North American Traveling Fellows. When he completed his special training last summer, Dr. DeHaven joined the staff of the Cleveland Clmic Orthopedics in the section of sports medicine. He had received his M.D. from Northwestern University School of Medicine in 1965.

In July 1971 Fred Jarrett M'65 joined Sint Lucas Ziekenhaus in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, as senior resident and then became chief resident. "Previously, I was a surgical house officer at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston," he wrote us from Amsterdam. "Now this has been a very educational and exciting year, and I've thoroughly enjoyed the privilege of working here in Holland and being able to do a bit of teaching. It was an unexpected honor to have been elected to special membership in the Dutch Surgical Society (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Heelkunde) in March after addressing the group. We've also had ample opportunity to travel — principally to France, Belgium, Germany, Greece and North Africa."

Through the Chelsea, Mass., Record we learned that Joel M. Noe M'67 has been awarded a fellowship in plastic surgery to study under Dr. Robert Chase, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Stanford University Medical Center. He is now a surgical resident at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

"After graduating from Harvard Medical School (M.D. '71)." writes Robert E. Nay lor D'69, "I joined a fairly large contingent of adventurous Easterners heading west — and have just completed an enjoyable internship in medicine at University Hospital of San Diego. The Air Force feels it just cannot do without my services and after a three-month tour in San Antonio learning the basics of flight medicine, they are sending me to Thailand for a year! At least that's somewhat more exotic and exciting than Southern Texas!"

Joe Marino M'70, one of our agents reports, is now at Johns Hopkins interning in pediatrics.

Franklin Lynch D'72, a member of our new first year class, is the son of FranklinLynch M'41 of Westport, Conn.

We've appreciated receiving this variety of information about DMS alumni. Keep the letters, cards, notices and clippings coming this way!